No matter how hard the U.S. government tries to pretend that decent jobs are not being sucked out of the country daily, and no matter how hard the mainstream media tries to ignore the fact that the government is pretending, the proverbial "sucking sound" continues unabated.

The death of Milton Freidman, economic advisor to Reagan and widely considered to be the moving force behind America's current devotion to "free markets," has led many an observer to issue glowing eulogies.  Lawrence Summers, of all people has decided that Friedman's efforts marked him "as a great man."

A "great man?"

The Republican tent shrank until there was no room for me.

Remember that "hot economy/"  Remember all those credit accounts funded by equity in the home?  Remember today's story from USA Today?

Get the feeling that your future prospects are starting to dim?  Considerably?

Say. you just might be a minority in one sense, or, if you believe me, a part of a coming majority.

Want to know how hot the economy--that great economy touted by Bush and all the Bush-alikes--really is?  Think about this headline:

Report: Hunger Rising in New York City

Oh, that thilly Rupert Murdoch, CEO of Faux News and the same publisher of OJ Simpson's...well, now cancelled...semi-auto-whatever. After a carload of public outcry, Faux is dumping the whole shooting match.......

Tom Noe, the Ohio coin dealer who raised tons of money for Bush (and was convicted of breaking the law in that sphere also), has just been sentenced to 18 years in prison for his actions in Coingate.

On Thursday, the White House announced that Bush will resubmit divisive federal appeals court nominations that had been held up by Congress.

Bush renominated William Haynes II, the Defense Department's chief lawyer and author of detainee policies, including policies that justify torture; William Myers III, an Idaho lobbyist for the mining and ranching industries and a critic of environmental regulation; Terrence Boyle, a former aide to Sen. Jesse Helms and district judge in North Carolina who has an abysmal record on civil rights and has had decisions reversed or vacated more than 100 times; and Michael Wallace, a Mississippi lawyer who has opposed enforcement of the Voting Rights Act and is the first federal court of appeals nominee in nearly 25 years to be rated unanimously "not qualified" by the American Bar Association.

So much for the pledge to compromise and de-emphasize partisanship. After the election thumpin', Bush seems more interested in picking fights with the Senate on judicial nominations than in filling vacancies.

[Can you say, "layin' the paper trail for the next round of distortion on the campaign trail"???]

Perhaps this is the time that our official government structure will have to acknowledge the serious problem of record-less electronic voting?

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